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YamCha is a generic, customizable, and open source text chunker oriented toward
a lot of NLP tasks, such as POS tagging, Named Entity Recognition, base NP
chunking, and Text Chunking. YamCha is using a state-of-the-art machine learning
algorithm called Support Vector Machines (SVMs), first introduced by Vapnik in
1995.

This package is python module for YamCha.